I watched the IMAX version of "Out of Control Players", from the visual experience, it is really wonderful, there were laughs and tears in the process, and even the audience in the cinema applauded. The original English name of the film was "Free Guy", the cover of freedom. Guy is the leading actor's name, and it is also a common spoken word in English, similar to "this guy". Thinking of another movie "The Man without a Name", then this film is "The Man without a Name". If we agree that "freedom" is a serious topic in today's era, then I would like to say how wonderful the movie watching process is, and how uncomfortable it is after watching the movie, a good-looking movie may not necessarily be a good movie. Good movies are at least conceptually honest and do not play game-style deconstruction. What's uncomfortable is that the story shaped under the banner of free turned into the greatest irony of freedom. This is sad. In the entire video game version of "The World of Trumen", the male protagonist Guy is a designed NPC character, a social animal in the game, but an encounter opened up his self-awareness, and he does not want to repeat the program every day. Artificial intelligence opens up self-awareness. It is not uncommon as a material for the theme of freedom. Just a few days ago, I just watched "Prometheus" and "Alien: Contract". The bionic David's free will was opened with philosophical thinking. The concept of freedom only arises when people are aware of restrictions. A bionic person is not free. When he realizes that he must obey the orders of human beings, he has consciousness. Another story template to illustrate freedom is the Matrix-style brain-controlled world. The character is a real person, but the world is false like a dream. Once a person realizes that he is trapped in a dream, the dream becomes free. The opposite. "Out of Control Players" combines the two major themes of artificial intelligence and the brain-controlled world into one, creating a complex double proposition—Gai is a "dummy" in the "fake world", to break through the double Freedom can only be achieved by fakes. Unfortunately, the screenwriters did not have such ambitions, which eventually led the discourse of freedom into the tragedy of game deconstruction. The process of Kai's consciousness opening after meeting the heroine is quite touching. It is a primitive call for freedom from human instinct. Love opens up the desire to create, and desire brings sparks of inspiration and inspires others. Gai's passion and innocent heart moved the audience very much, and it was also the most tear-jerking and inspirational part of the whole movie. His "reality" makes it hard not to love him. But he is after all, "an unknown person". When he found a friend who was also an NPC dummy to confide in, the friend gave a set of complete soul-style soothing, "live in the moment", easily deconstructing Guy's confusion about the existence of artificial intelligence. Seeing this, I am both moved by the friendship between these two characters, but also quite uncomfortable. The chicken soup of "feeling every moment" cannot be used to answer the perplexity of the free structure, even in a light-hearted comedy movie, this interpretation is not sincere. But Guy was persuaded, and completely abandoned the exploration of his own existence, and gladly accepted his as a dummy. fact. There is a more serious role ethics crisis here, which is how the screenwriter handles his sincere love for the heroine. The movie has taken a long time to convince the audience, "They really love each other", and now you are trying to convince the audience, "The freedom I just said is bullshit." Dummies and real people cannot cross the dimensional wall. In a movie that focuses on making NPCs generate free will, failing to cross the wall means the hypocrisy and failure of the freedom proposition. That is to say, in the minds of the creators, Gai is still an anonymous dummy, and the process of freeing is only to transfer him from a game designed by an abominable and stereotyped evil capitalist to a "game with love" in a peaceful world. The freedom that he gets is that there are no more scripts to restrict his actions, but what has not changed is that his actions are restricted by this world, and he accepts the gaze of a real person from that world. He is still regarded as an object, and he is eventually lost. love. As far as the design of movie stories is concerned, freedom is not necessarily achieved by simply achieving cross-wall. In a movie "Thirteen Degrees of Murder" with a similar world setting (this film can be described as the pioneer of The Matrix and Inception), the male protagonist is a dummy in the fake world, but he is loved by the real heroine in the real world, and finally The heroine "downloaded" his consciousness to the real world, and achieved the goal of crossing the wall. However, because this treatment comes from external forces (not the hero's self-breakthrough), and only achieves the simple level of "satisfaction" of love, it weakens the amazing questioning of existence by the film itself, which is not good. Writing. But the completion of love at least satisfied the audience. In contrast, the ending of "Out of Control Players" is really heartbreaking. How much love cover is in the process of watching the movie, and how angry it is to see him smiling and saying goodbye to the heroine. This farewell shredded the preciousness of his free will, and announced that on a larger level, even "freedom" is also part of the design-in order to make the character more attractive and more energetic. After the evil boss falls, the heaven created by the good boss has rainbow unicorns and sunny beaches, but you can only be trapped here freely and eternally, seeking indefinitely. As a metaphor for the real world, it is frightening. The overt evil force has a heinous, slavery squeeze, and it seems easy to recognize it, because it brings people intuitively painful. I find it hard to be optimistic whether the implicit control, the world behind the hidden power chain, an enlightened and authoritarian rainbow paradise, gives ordinary anonymous people real freedom. Perhaps what we have in a prosperous world is the freedom of monkeys to choose bananas, mangoes and kiwis.
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